Sentences with phrase «times uplifting stories»

However, immediately after setting such a dark tone, the five stories you are then given each show you that under the fog of death and dreariness there were also a lot of personal and often times uplifting stories that played out.

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Lorna is someone I admire & this uplifting story is one we need to see more of in these troubling times, thank you CNN for posting it.

I'm hoping if I read enough uplifting stories like this, that icky feeling will be gone by the time I'm ready to have children.

What a positive and uplifting story, at such an important time.

That may sound like an uplifting tale of perseverance and triumph against the odds, but the reality is different: Tamer Elsayed's story also includes prison time and a permanent ban from the United States.

I can?t tell you how many times I have felt better going to sleep just by lighting a few candles and reading an uplifting book or story, and falling asleep wearing my signature piece of lingerie.

The downside to this approach is that the film occasionally feels repetitive or drags; we know that some kind of uplift is coming, because the story is well - worn, and there are times of wishing that it would just cut to the chase.

Pitched fascinatingly, at times uneasily, between misery and uplift, «Mister & Pete» tells the story of an endlessly resourceful child who survives the unimaginable over one long summer.

It's a story Bale called «uplifting and tragic at the same time» and Cooper certainly has the sensitivity, and the actors, to be able to deliver something well above the average revenge thriller.

As other Time Out reviews (below) indicate, the story's not uplifting - mainly because it's a story of the banking crisis, and so well acted you're absorbed in the story.

A heartfelt and well acted tale of sports underdog uplift, and a marginal recommendation for those interested in its subject matter, The Mighty Macs tells the true story of a driven women's basketball coach who in the early 1970s turned tiny Immaculata College into a three - time national champion.

Good performances and well - timed uplift don't disguise the fact that Secretariat's story lacks the drama of Seabiscuit's, and that writer - director Randall Wallace doesn't have Gary Ross» aptitude for getting beneath the surface of the horse's era.

In her uplifting memoir I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith Under Fire bestselling author Melba Pattillo Beals tells the story of how her spiritual beliefs helped her find a path forward during a troubling time in American hisStory of a Lifetime of Building Faith Under Fire bestselling author Melba Pattillo Beals tells the story of how her spiritual beliefs helped her find a path forward during a troubling time in American hisstory of how her spiritual beliefs helped her find a path forward during a troubling time in American history.

But a reader must discover the complexity of our characters all on their own time and pace in order to fully appreciate and enjoy the narrative, to feel uplifted or hurt along with our hero or heroine, to cry and rejoice with them at every turn of the story.

While the story didn't exactly blow me away like I had hoped it would, it was still very enjoyable and uplifting to watch Aloy triumph over the many challenges she faced throughout my time in her shoes.

I remember a time when a «science story» often promised something interesting and sometimes uplifting, nowadays science so often means piety, posturing lecturing and misery.